During the clean install of FC6 there was a message saying there was not enough memory to do use the GUI installer and that the text installer would be used instead. Fair enough since the machine has 192MB of memory. (The machine is a Compaq EN and is going to be used mainly as a firewall.) Later in the install, in prompted to allow the early use of the hard drive for a swap file due to the small physical memory. Now, in past installs (I am still a relative novice) the machine would boot into the GUI (runlevel 5) after the installation. However, this machine keeps coming up in text mode. During boot, I see a INIT runlevel 3 go by, but can't figure out what is causing it to go into text mode. In text mode, logging in as root, I can do a gdm and the GUI comes up. So it would seem that all the bits and pieces are there for the GUI. There is one odd thing though. When I try to change the display resolution it limits me to 800x600 apparently because it thinks it is hooked to a generic CRT display with limited capability. The truly bizarre thing is that it will not let me change the display type to anything else (OK is greyed out)! (The monitor is a ViewSonic VA912b LCD that handily does 1280 x 1024! I have tried to use all the classic Xconfig type tools, but none of them seem to be installed. I've also done a variety of Google searches, but not come up with anything that helps. (Not to say it doesn't exist, but I have not hit it with the keywords I used!). Is the core of my problem the limited DRAM on my system? Or is there something I screwed up with the installation. Any references or help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Don
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